1989, the gold and black Batman logo was everywhere. It was the film that made me a Batman fan as well. Also, my grandfather misread the poster and thought it was a mouth with weird gold teeth. 😁

If you want to go really in depth, check out the podcast, “BEST MOVIES NEVER MADE” by Stephen Scarlata & Josh Miller. In particular this episode which is the first part of four where they run through all the scripts they could find which lead up to the 1989 final film.

With regard to breaking even, I was just recalling what I found on a small article about the film. So who knows what it would really need to break even? Double sounds more realistic though.

Del Toro was incredibly close to shooting an adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness in 2011, when Universal shut the project down. They decided they weren’t going to risk a $150m budget on an R rated for film which would probably need about $500m to break even.

A couple of years ago Del Toro shared a thirty second clip of pre-viz by Industrial Light and Magic. Another film to add to list of what couldn’t been.

Production companies must hate drones! 😆

I remember the first DVDs extras where items such as “interactive menu” which always bugged me because surely a non interactive menu is just a picture of some buttons?

Anyway, the extras got better and better over the years and the quality on some titles has been astounding.

The Frighteners has a 4½ hour “making of” for example. The Alien Quadrilogy and Blade Runner are two more examples of amazing DVD extras as well.

Sadly, it seems to be just the boutique labels putting in the work these days. It’s frustrating when studio releases list several intriguing sounding extras and then it turns out they only last five minutes each.

Industrial Light & Magic kept their original locations a secret, as they didn’t want Star Wars fans rummaging through their trash for bits of models.

Apparently my area will get a lean Labour win. I bloody hope so, my Tory MP is useless. Aren’t they all?

I had to log in into the default web UI to see what it was on my PC, but it’s great. Perfect for the sub. By default, I use phtn.app to browse lemmy on my laptop, and the icons are on the small side.

However, on my phone using Thunder, it looks great too.

I love sci-fi and Alien doesn’t feel like a gory horror film. There’s flashes of gore but it doesn’t bother me.

The director’s first film was The Evil Dead remake. I love the original three films but I couldn’t even make it through the red band trailer of that remake. 🤢

I’m excited for a new Alien film but worried that it’s hard core horror as I don’t like those kinds of films.

Not sure wether to watch in the cinema through the gaps in my fingers or watch it on streaming later on a bright sunny day with curtains open etc. 😆

Agreed. I saw an interview with him where he explained that he appreciated Dredd Day (many years ago) where fans got the film to the number 1 spot on Amazon’s chart in order to promote interest in a sequel.

But as he further explained, all of the investors lost money on the original film, so getting anyone to invest in a sequel was an impossibility.

As a fan of the franchise, I’m definitely interested, but as a mature gamer, I’m always weary of film tie-ins…

Wasn’t that the weapon that fired 3 green shots at once in formation? I found it too cumbersome to be used effectively.

Sadly, when I fix apps on my dad’s tablet, I notice he has YouTube subscribed to GBNews. I have to avoid any political discussion with him as he has gone down the rabbit hole and repeated many crazy theories which I debunk immediately, but I don’t think he believes me.

You joke, but scripts were written for a sequel to E.T. Let’s just say they were a very different film to the original.

Yeah, I wasn’t too impressed with the sequel. Wasn’t it called Punisher: War Zone or something?

I misread that at first, as I know there are plenty of films that have been visually created by AI and just look odd, including a full remake of Terminator 2!

See X-Men Origins: Wolverine! There’s some shoddy CGI blades!

Despite having no knowledge of the source material, I loved Arcane season 1, so really looking forward to Season 2. I think I read there’s another Batman Ninja coming. The first one is beautiful and, excuse the pun, bat shit crazy! As a Terminator fan, really interested in the upcoming Netflix animated show. What else?? Sony and Netflix have a new Ghostbusters animated show in development, but I think that’s quite a way off yet. I see posts below of the animated Watchmen adaptation. I’m interested to see this, although I find DC usual straight to DVD content quite cheap looking. I love the live action Watchmen director’s cut (the one without the animated Black Sails segments) and I wonder if they’re sticking to the original squid ending?

That’s was a game I loved so much, I played through it twice! Shame it never got any “pro” enhancements as the canyon levels hit the FPS levels causing stutters.